he joins us every monday. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: it is interesting, first both sides started by taking down the negative ads in colorado, which was expected. but we've had three days now where it's been relatively static. there is no food fight. maybe we're fine lea going to talk about the big issues. >> that's what i'm hoping, that as they retreat from the public stage and then come back out, which they will do soon enough, that the tone will have changed, that there is some sort of mourning period will inspire them to think differently about the future of the country. i'm not calling for a knock down, drag out fight over gun rights. i think that's probably frankly a smaller issue here given the future. i'm talking about the jobs. i'm talking about the debt, the deficit, the entitlement reform, all of these things that are real threats to our way of life, the foreign policy, we don't talk about foreign policy at all except when there is some disaster and they're forced to issue a stat